The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is encouraging citizens to recycle their cell phones during its second annual National Cell Phone Recycling Week, April 5 – 11, 2010. The joint effort, along with the EPA’s Plug-In To eCycling program and cell phone manufacturers, retailers, and wireless service providers, aims to increase awareness about the importance of cell phone recycling.
EPA and its Plug-In partners, including AT&T, Best Buy, LG Electronics, RecycleBank, Samsung Mobile, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless, are sponsoring promotional activities across the country to highlight the many easy opportunities to turn in phones for reuse and recycling and provide a call to action.
Plug-In To eCycling works with companies to offer consumers more opportunities to donate or recycle their used electronics. Since the program began in 2003, Plug-In To eCycling partners have recycled more than 360 million pounds of electronics, including televisions, computers and cell phones.
More information on cell phone collection centers near you: http://www.epa.gov/cellphones
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